{"id":680,"date":"2018-06-17T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werner.med.br\/w143\/?page_id=680"},"modified":"2021-11-07T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T23:44:39","slug":"chrysler-viper-gts-r-55-minichamps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/chrysler-viper-gts-r-55-minichamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler Viper GTS-R #55 &#8211; Minichamps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/+upload\/a-h\/chrysler_viper_55_01.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>1998 Chrysler Viper GTS-R<\/strong>\nPilots: E. Cl\u00e9rico, J-C. Lagniez, G. Martinolle\nTeam: <em>Paul Belmondo Racing<\/em>\nRace: 16th overall (5th in GTS class) at Le Mans in <strong>1999<\/strong>\nMinichamps - 430991455 (diecast)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"color: #919191;\">Published 07\/17\/17<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">First seen in 1996, the GTS-R was a successful racing variant of the Dodge Viper and developed as an international joint venture. French Oreca would construct and maintain the racing cars in their shops, the car&#8217;s basic chassis and other integral parts would be the responsibility of British engineering firm Reynard Motorsport and the engine would come from USA\u2019s Chrysler. The car body was heavily based on the Viper GTS of 1995, and the engine was basically the same 356-T6 unit of the passenger car. The 356-T6 engine was a huge 7998 cm\u00b3 naturally-aspirated V10 with aluminum alloy block and head and with 20 valves, capable of frightening 620 hp of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/+upload\/a-h\/chrysler_viper_55_02.jpg\" alt=\"GTS-R #55\"\/><figcaption>A beauty of a livery, but all that is decals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 24 Hours of Le Mans of 1999, Paul Belmondo Racing had two GTS-R in the race. This GTS-R #55 is chassis #C9, bought from Oreca at the end of 1998. After 310 laps it finished in 16th overall and <a aria-label=\"fifth place (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysportscar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/le-mans-1999-finish-order-16.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">fifth place<\/a> in the GTS class. Its sister car, Viper # 54, came right behind in 17th. By the way: the 1999 race was a Viper Fest, with eight GTS-R on the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/+upload\/a-h\/chrysler_viper_55_03.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>A ton of decals with a good chance of peeling with time&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the good class result, in scale the <strong>GTS-R #55<\/strong> is at most \u201cjust okay\u201d for a Minichamps. It\u2019s an older mold, with LOTS of decals and with almost pw-bad wheels. Certainly not even close to more recent offerings from the brand. Unfortunately, all <a aria-label=\"Minichamps' Vipers (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/chrysler-viper-gts-r-51-minichamps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minichamps&#8217; Vipers<\/a> are kind of poor. This one in particular grabbed my attention because of the Playstation livery. I always liked video games, and had a PS2 and PS3. However, when my PS3 gave up the ghost I upgraded to an XBox One. In spite of not owning one anymore, I have fond memories of my Playstations. Specially playing the Gran Turismo series on both PS2 and PS3 \ud83d\ude0a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1998 Chrysler Viper GTS-R Pilots: E. Cl\u00e9rico, J-C. Lagniez, G. Martinolle Team: Paul Belmondo Racing Race: 16th overall (5th in GTS class) at Le Mans in 1999 Minichamps &#8211; 430991455 (diecast) Published 07\/17\/17 First seen in 1996, the GTS-R was a successful racing variant of the Dodge Viper and developed as an international joint venture. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/chrysler-viper-gts-r-55-minichamps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chrysler Viper GTS-R #55 &#8211; Minichamps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13007,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions\/13007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}